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Plot

Synopsis

Origin of the Title

In computing, view-source is a routine that allows a user to read the source code of a website.

In the context of the characters, view-source is a metaphor for seeing beneath the surface each character maintains to their true selves.

The extension: .flv is the file extension for video in Adobe Flash format. It is the format for most web-based streaming video.

Episode Notes

This episode picks up one month after Shayla's death. In it, Elliot has completed his year of court-mandated therapy with Krista.

Romero has found a new occupation developing lotion containing Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the principal component of cannabis that creates the "high" experienced by users. Applied topically, the lotion will create the same high as smoking a joint.

Tyrell and Joanna Wellick's relationship, and their plotting, draw from Shakespeare's tragedy, Macbeth. In the play, Macbeth, at the urging of his scheming, ambitious wife, kills King Duncan, and becomes King of Scotland. However, in getting what he wants, Macbeth soon becomes consumed by guilt and increasingly paranoid, eventually descending into madness.

In the opening sequence, Shayla says to Elliot, "...keep the fish, you filthy animal." The expression 'you filthy animal' was taken from the Home Alone series of movies, in which Kevin watches his favorite film, Angels with Filthy Souls, which contains the expression.

After writing Shayla's file's to disk, Elliot stows the disk away with all his other disks, labeled with names of actual albums by actual artists. Eight such labeled disks are visible in the following shot - including one that is labeled "Tool - Anemia". However, the correct spelling of this album by metal band Tool is "Aenima".

Technology

Music

"Pictures of You" recorded by The Cure (1989). This song appears on the album "Disintegration", which Elliot uses to label his CD containing Shayla's history. It was released as a single in early 1990. As with many of Elliot's CD's, the album used to label them characterizes the person whose history the CD's contain.

"Japanese Farewell Song", recorded by Kay Cee Jones (1955). The Korean War era song was frequently heard playing over the PA in the television series M*A*S*H.